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Many Hawai‘i Uchinānchu (Okinawan persons) have visited their ancestral homeland, but relativ…

Colin Y. Sewake • May 23, 2023

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Celebrating 55 Years of Service and Self-Defence

Earlier this year, I had the honour of presenting Shihan Kei Tsumura, founder of the Japanese Canad…

Chris Hope • Nov. 14, 2018

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Mind, spirit, physique and tradition in arts

He discovered martial arts through his father who practiced judo and began training at the age of 1…

Tatiana Maebuchi • May 24, 2017

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Yoshihiro Toume, who connects Uchinanchu around the world from his base in Los Angeles

Planning a food event at a U.S. military base in Okinawa I think it was around 2005 when I first me…

Keiko Fukuda • April 7, 2017

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The Level of Training Was Different

Art Ishii began his judo training in 1954 at Hollywood Judo Dojo in Los Angeles, CA, under the dire…

Erik Matsunaga • Jan. 2, 2014

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Francisco Miyasaka On Being a Cuban Nisei - Part 3 of 3

Read Part 2 >> Working at the Cuban Embassy in Tokyo At the beginning of the revolu…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 15, 2013

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Francisco Miyasaka On Being a Cuban Nisei - Part 2 of 3

Read Part 1 >> All Issei to a maximum security prison “After Pearl Harbor, th…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 8, 2013

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Practicing Karate in Japan

Japanese martial arts such as judo and kendo have a strong presence in the Japanese American commun…

Thomas Tsutsumoto • Jan. 25, 2010

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Mensole! Okinawa in the USA

第５回　アメリカ人の心つかんだ沖縄秘伝の空手　

劉衛流パンアメリカン・チーフインストラクター新城友弘さん沖縄生まれの新一世沖縄空手の一流派である劉衛流 (りゅうえいりゅう)。１９７９年から現在まで数千人のアメリカ人に指南してきたのが、劉衛流の南…

Keiko Fukuda • March 15, 2008

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